Connor Herson: Traditional at Heart

A short profile of Connor Herson, made by Double H Productions for La Sportiva. Herson was born into a climbing family and came up doing all of it: bouldering, sport routes, and the big wall trad climbing in Yosemite that made his name. The film sets his climbing against the other half of his life, a degree at Stanford, and treats the scheduling problem as the real subject rather than a footnote. This is an athlete portrait more than an ascent film, so expect context and conversation alongside the climbing. It is worth watching if you want to understand where one of the most complete young trad climbers in America came from, and how a person actually fits cutting-edge ascents around midterms.